This site provides GIS data from shallow-water multibeam bathymetric
surveys, submersible dives, and workshops
conducted in 2001-2005 in support of the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary,
American Samoa (now known as the National Marine Sanctuary of
American Samoa) in the SW Pacific Ocean. Most shallow high-resolution multibeam
bathymetric data were collected with a Kongsberg Simrad EM3000 system owned
and operated by the College of Marine Science,
U. of South Florida. Also included is a recent compilation of deepwater
bathymetry for the entire Eastern Samoan region, as well as
terrestrial GIS data layers obtained from the American Samoa GIS User Group,
and other sources. In addition, we offer various Generic Mapping Tools
GMT grids,
maps, and various photographic images and graphics.
Please note that shallow bathymetric grids
have not undergone corrections for differential GPS.

Neat!
2014 National Park of American Samoa Climate Change Research Map, showing
forest study plots on Tutuila installed every 70 m, or every 200 to 300 ft. in
elevation change.

To download a file, PC or Unix users should hold
down the RIGHT mouse button and then choose "Save Link As" or "Download Link to Disk" (Internet Explorer). Mac users should
hold down the mouse button and then choose "Save Link As" or "Download Link to Disk". In the table below, "NA" means "
not available." On a very limited basis we may be able to burn sets of
CDs containing all of the bathymetric data sets. Email
Dawn for more info.

The data and other resources on this web site are copyrighted by Oregon State University and licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit the link or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA.
If using any data, photos, or other
material from this site, we would appreciate a credit to Davey Jones' Locker
Seafloor Mapping/Marine GIS Lab, Oregon State University, D. Wright." If wishing to use the data in a commercial, for-profit manner, please contact Denis Sather of the OSU Office of Technology Transfer.

Photo montage in header courtesy of National Marine Sanctuary System and Kip Evans, National Geographic Society
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. 0074635
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/djl/samoa